Just More People Offended

For John, BLUF:  Isn't this what the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr, thought—"live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character".  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The contemptible concept of 'white privilege' is just ugly, angry racism

Here is the sub-headline:

Maxime Bernier is right: Identity politics dissolves community, reduces a country to subsets of clans, and obscures the diversity of individual lives

This Opinion Piece, by Mr Rex Murphy, 9 March 2018, appears in the National Post (Canada).

Here is the lede plus five:

There is much to choose from this week, including the infantile wailing and moronic ignorance of social-justice hooligans driven crazy mad (Pavlovian response) by Jordan Peterson giving a lecture, by invitation, at Queen’s University.  (Three cheers for Queen’s president and the law faculty for inviting Dr. Peterson.)

Then there is Justin Trudeau inviting the fanatically anti-Alberta-oil Bill Nye to Ottawa for a public chat on science, the highlight of which was the signal revelation of the centrality of breastfeeding to the scientific method — delivered by our PM. When baby wails and the milk flows, can Planck’s constant be far behind?

As well: Jaspal Atwal, failed Sikh assassin, holding what he ludicrously called a press conference.  The only takeaway: his lawyer is scarier, though not necessarily more competent.

More fertile than them all however was the brisk, chippy, and entitled Twitter blast levelled by Liberal MP and person of colour, Celina Caesar-Chavannes (Whitby, Ont.), at Conservative MP Maxime Bernier (Beauce, Que.).

Bernier had criticized an earlier tweet by Ahmed Hussen in which the Immigration Minister said the federal budget was historic for “racialized Canadians.”

Bernier said he deplored that tweet’s “awful jargon,” the pitch to “racialized” Canadians, and put out a plea for “colour blindness,” character over skin colour.  His critics, Bernier said, implied (he was) a racist because “I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.”

You are offended by something someone says, so you say something that happens to offend me.  This strikes me as a never-ending cycle that benefits no one.  And it doesn't work.  It is time to try something new.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff